Re: libc6 upgrade
Clare Johnstone <clare@ucs.uwa.edu.au> writes:
CJ> On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote:
EC> AJT60@student.canterbury.ac.nz wrote:
AT> Should I be wary of ubgrading from libc6 2.0.6 to 2.0.7? Or can
AT> I just blithely replace the library?
EC>
EC> As long as you aren't talking about a libc5 to libc6 upgrade,
EC> then go ahead and let dselect/apt do their thing.
CJ>
CJ> And as I am quite paranoid - won't .. daren't.. use dselect..
CJ> what is the answer then?
Upgrades between versions of libc6 are safe. It's okay to download an
updated libc6 package and install it using dpkg (essentially what
dselect does anyways).
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